Snapchat just grew for the first time in a year

Is it too soon to call this a turnaround? Snap just reported its results for the first quarter of 2019 and delivered investors some long overdue good news: Snapchat added new users for the first time in a year.The app now counts 190 million daily active users (DAUs),

Facebook has today launched strike three against Camp Snapchat with Slingshot. As with many of Facebook’s recent products (like Paper), Slingshot is an already-proven idea dressed up in an expensive UI with an established distribution network of billions.

I often get asked why a Harvard neuropsychiatrist spends so much time talking about emotions and the brain in front of media and marketing research experts. The answer is that we live in an increasingly competitive world, and relying on what consumers tell us is incomplete,

I was driving to a meeting in San Francisco when I got the message: “Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.” I pulled over and watched as messages started to stream in. Everyone had the same question: Is Facebook crazy?

Blink, a mobile messaging application that lets users share self-destructing messages, has been acquired by Yahoo, TechCrunch has confirmed. The app competed in an increasingly crowded space alongside Snapchat, of course, but also newer entrants like Frankly, Confide, Wickr, and others.

Most of us have had Facebook accounts for the past few years, if not a decade. But time and bloat have turned once-beloved font of nostalgia into an onslaught of faux-sentimental sludge from strangers. So as Facebook stands poised to break itself into a bunch of different apps, we say to you:

Secret Inc. — makers of the”anonymish” app Secret, which lets users post notes to friends, friends-of-friends, or those in their vicinity without revealing their identities — crashed through the highs and lows of startup life in the last year,

After letting just celebrities and journalists on its Periscope competitor for a few months, Facebook today began testing its Live streaming video broadcasting feature with average users on iOS in the U.S.

TL;DR: A 15-month subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £5.49 per month as of June 7, saving you 49% on list price.A VPN is a useful tool for a number of reasons, including improving online security and data protection. Security and privacy is obviously important,

TL;DR: The Social Distancing Lifetime Subscription Bundle is on sale for £156.76, saving you 76% on list price.The new normal can be summed up as: spending time at home, working at home, working out at home, cleaning your home, and doing pretty much everything at home.

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Power to the people.In the almost two weeks since the killing of George Floyd, who died in police custody on May 25, people all around the world have stepped up to make their voices heard. The message: this shit has to stop. Black Americans risk their lives just waking up every day because of a U.

If you want to find inspiration for all the new art supplies you've stocked up on, or you're simply wanting to delve into a history lesson in a more interesting way, now's the perfect time to stream an art documentary.

Mark Zuckerberg may soon find himself in an unfamiliar situation: facing actual, personal consequences for Facebook's missteps. As the FTC continues to investigate the social network's mishandling of user data,

A park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo snapped a selfie with two gorillas that went viral. Virunga National Park shared the funny photo on their Instagram page. Read more...More about Instagram, Animals, Mashable Video, Virunga National Park, and Selfie

This is your reminder that you should never ask the Internet for anything.On July 29, FOX 29 in Philadelphia tweeted out a beautiful picture of the full moon from their Skyfox traffic camera. The news outlet simply asked their followers on Twitter to share their own favorite photos of the moon.

The Most Magical Place on Earth has started scanning the fingers of three-year-olds in an effort to prevent ticket fraud, because you can never be too careful about tiny babies that have only just started communicating properly.Read more...